[102] Baron Kentarō Kaneko has been elected a member of the City Council (of Tōkyō) as representative of the first-class tax-payers in Kōjimachi Ku. It may be added that the Nippon Yūsen Kwaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Company) is the only first-class tax-payer in that ward, and the Baron secured the one vote. [103] See note at bottom of page 139. [104] “The Island of Formosa” (Davidson) is invaluable. [105] See Appendix. [106] Quotations from Regulations. [107] For statistics and other information concerning the army and the navy, see Appendix. [108] “The New Far East,” chap. vii. [109] “Any foreign power that should venture to attack Japan in her own waters, would be strangely advised.”—CHAMBERLAIN. [110] See p. 104. [111] Renewed in 1905 and 1911. [112] “Japan, geographically to the mighty continent of Asia what Great Britain is to the continent of Europe; Japan, an island people with all the strength, mental and physical, that is the heritage of a nation cradled on the sea; Japan, by the necessities of her environment compelled to appreciate the importance of sea-power; Japan, in short, the Britain of the Orient.”—DIOSY. [113] The first alliance of a white nation and a yellow nation. [114] Several paragraphs are here republished, by permission, from “The Standard,” Chicago. [115] See his voluminous work in Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xx., Supplement. [116] These new codes are available in English, as follows: The Civil Code, by Gubbins; the Civil Code and the Commercial Code, by Lönholm and Terry; the Commercial Code, the Criminal Code, and the Code of Civil Procedure, in official translations. [117] See “Japan in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” [118] But missionaries, as individuals, are able to unite in organizing a Japanese corporation. [119] Portions of this chapter are reprinted by permission from the “American Journal of Sociology,” March, 1903. [120] Chap. iv. on “People, Houses, Food, Dress.” [121] The Japanese mother-in-law is an awful tyrant; but it is always the wife’s mother-in-law. [122] Since 1882 they have been upon the same basis. [123] These are composed of a large circle of relatives, and exercise autocratic influence in most important questions. [124] The word “family” is here and hereinafter used in a technical sense, peculiar to Japan, of a group of the same surname. In Old Japan the family was the social unit.